Carbon capture materials built for scale
Atoco’s carbon capture technology is built on decades of research by our Founder and Chief Science Officer, Nobel laureate Prof. Omar Yaghi, whose work on reticular materials such as Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) earned him the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This Nobel Prize-winning science is what allows us to design reticular carbon capture materials with atomic precision to capture CO₂ either from ambient air or industrial processes:
•Direct Air Capture (DAC), pulling CO₂ straight from the atmosphere, where concentrations are extremely dilute (around 0.04%).
•Post-Combustion Capture (PCC), capturing CO₂ from flue gas streams at the point source, where concentrations run far higher (typically 3–5%).
Incumbent carbon capture technologies have a cost problem. Two factors have historically driven up the cost per tonne of CO₂ captured: the energy needed to pre-dry incoming airstreams before capture, and the energy needed to regenerate capture material once it’s saturated.
Turning proven science into wider adoption
Being featured in the Global CCS Institute’s Technology Compendium is a milestone worth sharing, but the real goal behind it is bigger than recognition: it’s about helping industries capture carbon at the scale the climate challenge actually demands.
Whether it’s low-concentration CO2 capture from ambient air or PCC carbon capture from a dilute industrial flue gas stream, Atoco’s nano-engineered reticular carbon capture materials can overcome the main challenges of incumbent carbon capture technologies and therefore reduce cost per tonne of CO₂ captured significantly. That means giving operators — whether in data centers, heavy industry, or shipping — a way to capture carbon that fits the economics of their site.
Want to see how this can enable wider adoption of carbon capture at your site? Learn more about Atoco’s carbon capture technology: Carbon Capture Solutions – Solid-State Carbon Capture Technology | Atoco